Shrishtee Bajpai, from Global Tapestry of Alternatives,reveals how local struggles for self-determination connect across cultures and what is being done to weave a 'pluriverse' of possibilities rooted in social and ecological justice www.populationbalance.org/podcast/shri...

Raised in a conservative Indian family, Sneha knew from an early age that she didn't want to have a biological child. She rejected the patriarchal expectations of procreation and marriage and embraced her own path. Listen to her story www.populationbalance.org/beyond-prona...

We face swift judgement if we decide not to have children, even though this decision is the most consequential of our lives. More and more people are rejecting these judgments and expectations to follow their true dreams.

Trump’s cuts mean that every week nearly one million women and girls worldwide will be denied contraceptive care, potentially costing them their lives. Read more 🔗 www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

A thought-provoking personal perspective from @popnbalance.bsky.social. "While human overpopulation is not the only factor driving ecological overshoot, it is the most neglected one, and the factor that intensifies every crisis confronting us."

Birthrates are falling across the world. This is not cause for alarm, but should be celebrated as a natural consequence of women having reproductive choice. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

B (who wants to remain anonymous) reveals why societal collapse — in the form of a stair-step decline with sharp drops — is inevitable, and how to strategically leverage our influence to minimize suffering. www.populationbalance.org/podcast/the-...

Having children should always be a carefully considered decision, and a possible life path that is one option among many. Read more www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

International climate reparations are a step in the direction of climate justice. But they do not address the underlying driver of vast international, intergenerational and interspecies injustice: ecological overshoot. Read more 🔗 www.ipsnews.net/2025/08/clim...

Bribes won't convince women to have babies they don’t want, and coercive laws like abortion bans are triggering a form of protest from women who refuse to have babies in such an environment. 🔗 worldcrunch.com/culture-soci...

Delighted to share this good discussion between friends Nandita Bajaj @popnbalance.bsky.social & Florence Blondel @florenceblondel.bsky.social on population angst/ #coercivepronatalism stoked by #farright patriarchal drivers of social/economic growth youtu.be/WBdJ4QZ-kc4 @endovershoot.bsky.social 👏

The development of contraceptive technologies has been absolutely central to the empowerment and liberation of women from the burdens of unwanted pregnancy and motherhood. But IUDs and hormonal birth control also have significant side effects for many women.

This childfree woman faced backlash at work simply for talking about her tubal ligation. Yet, as she notes, "everyone else talks about pregnancy, daycare, baby poop, and IVF constantly." www.msn.com/en-us/lifest...

One of these viewpoints by the ED of @popnbalance.bsky.social, Nadiata Bajaj, cuts to the core of population denialism: #pronatalism. That is what my book, #TheBabyMatrix is all about. amzn.to/4km3GbB

🌱 Population Balance (@popnbalance.bsky.social) is one of the few voices saying it plainly: a smaller human footprint is the only path to lasting ecological balance. #Pronatalism #EcologicalJustice #Childfree Thank you for hosting Joe's story. Hear it below:

Excellent topic on @popnbalance.bsky.social 's latest podcast: www.populationbalance.org/podcast/samu... #overshoot #overpopulation

Delighted to share this good discussion between my friends/ colleagues Nandita Bajaj @popnbalance.bsky.social & Florence Blondel @florenceblondel.bsky.social on how population angst/ #coercivepronatalism are stoked by far-right patriarchal drivers of social/economic growth. youtu.be/WBdJ4QZ-kc4?...

#EarthOvershootDay Today humanity has used everything Earth can regenerate for the entire year.What we spend is not borrowed from the future,there is no banking system that lends us "resources" and to which we pay interest.What we degrade is lost in our time scale. www.instagram.com/p/DMfpSVOMH_...

"Kids deserve to be wanted, not brought into the world because parents feel like having kids is something they're supposed to do.” www.newsweek.com/couple-kids-...

#Pronatalism has been the realm of right-wing, anti-choice ideologies. But now, with declining fertility rates, so-called “progressives” are jumping on the pronatalist bandwagon. Progressivism is about expanding rights, not about pressuring women to have more babies 🔗 msmagazine.com/2025/07/18/p...

Once women are able to choose the number and timing of their births, they are never going back. Read more 🔗 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Pronatalist pressures to have children are so powerful and everpresent, many of us cannot even tell what our true reproductive desires are. And if we can, those pressures cause us to second guess ourselves if we do not conform to society’s expectations.

A chance conversation blew open the door regarding societal expectations around relationships,sex, and conventional measures of success. #Childfree, single, and celibate, Pip lives an independent, authentic, and joyful life with her family of two rescue dogs www.populationbalance.org/beyond-prona...

Starting at about 1:10 in, ED of @popnbalance.bsky.social Nandita Bajaj speaks to the roots of #pronatalism 5000 years ago and since. Yes, it has been with us for that long. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBdJ... To dive into pronatalism and more, see my book, #TheBabyMatrix amzn.to/4nKeGm1

An article by our friend and advisor Eileen Crist. In order to justify the annihilation of animals and nature, we make ourselves into gods and them into nothing. Read more 🔗 blog.ecologicalcitizen.net/2025/07/11/r...

Today marks #WorldPopulationDay, a day that reminds us of the urgent need to scale back the devastating impact of our growing numbers on the planet. We are committed to reclaiming the population discussion as central to feminism, human rights, animal protection, and ecology.

We believe that #AI is energy-intensive, ecologically destructive, anthropocentric in purpose, represents a false solution to ecological problems, and causes alienation in human-nature relationships. That's why we're now using #NotbyAI at #EarthTongues. Not by AI website: notbyai.fyi

Wrote about why panic over human birth rates falling is not just delusional but evil www.currentaffairs.org/news/there-a...

I had a great conversation with Nandita Bajaj and Alan Weisman on the OVERSHOOT podcast about why fixation on growth and increasing birthrates is fundamentally authoritarian and anti-life (and also about conviviality, solidarity, and more). Have a listen! www.populationbalance.org/podcast/samu...

I listened to this excellent podcast yesterday. It explains why Elon Musk and others are in a dither about fertility rates, despite the fact that the human population will climb another 2 billion in the next few decades.

We are in a pronatalist dystopia: paying girls to have babies when they are barely adults themselves.

The fertility panic is an elite fixation that is rooted in a human supremacist worldview and a deep fear of slowing growth. In this episode of OVERSHOOT, Samuel Miller exposes how our parasitic relationship with Earth lies at the core of ecological overshoot www.populationbalance.org/podcast/samu...

All over the world, more and more people are making the choice to be #childfree. Even in deeply patriarchal and pronatalist societies like Nigeria, support for this choice is growing. Read more 👉🏽 www.zikoko.com/her/nigerian...

Our growth-oriented economic system is one source of the constant pressure so many of us feel to have kids. Our guest Paddy refused to be a part of that, choosing instead to give himself and his partner the gift of a vasectomy

Joe, alongside his partner, has built a purposeful #childfree life rooted in love for nonhumans — founding and managing @ecologicalcitizen.bsky.social and working to protect biodiversity, specifically insects, in his local habitat. Listen to Joe's story! www.populationbalance.org/beyond-prona...

People have fewer children wherever they have the choice to do so. Pressuring them to do otherwise is harmful to women, children, and the natural world. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Pronatalism doesn't care about children. It doesn't care about life. It only cares about money, profit, and race. www.science.org/content/arti...

It has been a hard-won path to obtain more recognition for the #childfree path as valid and fulfilling. We must keep fighting to ensure that progress does not backslide. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/unap...

With a decision as consequential as the choice to have kids, you’d think that choice would be questioned as much as the choice to be #childfree. #Pronatalism assures that it will never be questioned, but always considered the default.

People all over the world are saying no to the relentless pressures to have children. These four Kenyan men, for a variety of reasons, are defying the deeply pronatalist expectations of their culture to craft their own childfree lives as they want. nation.africa/kenya/news/g...

Sonia and Aamer decided that they wanted to become parents. After spending a few years carefully weighing their emotional and financial readiness, environmental values, and desire for parenthood, they chose to have one child. Listen to their story 👉🏽 www.populationbalance.org/beyond-prona...

"The Omnivore's Deception": The Case of Conflicted Carnivores | Psychology Today The wonderful Marc Beckoff, a legend in cognitive ethology, has interviewed me about my book.... @psychologytoday.com www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anim...

Excerpt from my new book, "The Omnivore's Deception: What We Get Wrong about Meat, Animals, and Ourselves," launching TWO WEEKS FROM TODAY! Preorder: nyupress.org/978147982596...

My wide-ranging interview with Nandita Bajaj and Alan Ware of Population Balance about my new book, "The Omnivore's Deception"--coming out ONE WEEK from today, June 17! Already available for purchase on Amazon and other booksellers. www.populationbalance.org/podcast/john...

”Green” technology is not the solution. Nickel mining for EVs is destroying one of the most biodiverse marine habitats in the world. www.bbc.com/news/article...

It is often assumed that people want large families, but people all over the world suffer as a consequence of pronatalism and the inability to make informed choices about their family size. www.zikoko.com/ships/nigeri...

John Sanbonmatsu, author of The Omnivore’s Deception, shatters the myths of “humane meat” and the 'naturalness' of eating meat, and explains why abolishing the animal economy is essential to living an ethical human life. Listen to this episode of Overshoot www.populationbalance.org/podcast/john...

Our LTE in the Guardian disputes the claim that we should be happy the world population may be billions more than we thought. Population growth means that we have failed to empower women and girls, and benefits only wealthy elites at the expense of everyone else - people, the planet, and animals.